An atheist group that is known for targeting supposed violations of the separation between church and state recently protested a Holocaust memorial because the monument plans to feature a Star of David.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, or FFRF, has stated its opposition to the proposed Ohio Statehouse Holocaust memorial because its leaders believe that including the religious symbol would create "legal precedent."

The co-presidents of the FFRF, Don Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, wrote a letter to Richard Finan, chair of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board about the proposed memorial, The Blaze reported.

Permitting one permanent sectarian and exclusionary religious symbol ... would create the legal precedent, for instance, to place an equally large or larger permanent Latin cross on Capitol grounds," they wrote. The group maintains that they have an issue with including the star because it is associated with Judaism but have no problem with a Holocaust museum at the capitol.

The monument could resemble numerous powerful war memorials across the U.S. which do not use any sectarian images, including the national World War II Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the letter continued. Each is secular in nature and without religious reference, which offends no one and is respected by all.

The architect who is involved with the project, Daniel Libeskind, purposefully included the star because he says that one cannot separate the Holocaust from the star.

Each is secular in nature and without religious reference, which offends no one and is respected by all.

This guy is evil and probably stupid as well. I find the idea of a Holocaust Memorial without the Star of David shockingly offensive. Do these whiners from the FFRF even know what the Holocaust was about?

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posted on 07/21/2013 11:03:39 AM PDT
by Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)

They, along with millions of other low-info Americans, have no idea what the establishment clause means. I would wager that a majority of Americans believe the words “separation of church and state” actually appear in the Constitution.

This what happens when the government schools quit teaching civics and replace it with ethnic studies.

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posted on 07/21/2013 11:13:24 AM PDT
by beelzepug
(if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')

We have turned the other cheek in response to such fanatics for far too long. While that is essentially perfect guidance that I do my best to follow when dealing with normal people, it's the wrong answer when dealing those who exploit our virtues.

Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one . . . And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough. [Luke 22:36,38]

I believe this passage means that there is a time for the sword - but only in moderation. I also believe this is the time when we should no longer turn the other cheek, not when western civilization and freedom are on the line. The Ohio State House should either fight to the death for a real memorial, or replace their planned memorial with a discrete plaque explaining that the litigious bullies from FFRF, siding with Holocaust deniers, have prevented them from building a true Holocaust Memorial, and that any memorial without the Star of David would be meaningless.

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posted on 07/21/2013 11:31:55 AM PDT
by Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)

Not shooting them, but we have to show some backbone instead of simply bowing to their insane demands to keep the peace. They don’t deserve peace, not when they provoke fights over all public displays of religion. Ohio is 1.3% Jewish - a Star of David on a monument does not in any way constitute a state establishment of an official religion and cannot rationally be misinterpreted as such.

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posted on 07/21/2013 11:38:02 AM PDT
by Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)

These subhumans are insufferable maggots, aren’t they? Their logic circuits have burned-out in what little grey matter they have. I find them offensive to humanity in their continuing attempts to bother other people with their spew.

Those who suffered, those who died, and those who survived the Holocaust, must have tried, as did Job, to make sense of such a colossal tragedy. In the end, after all the misery he and his family endured, Job remained faithful, saying "God has given. God has taken away. Blessed be God's name."

All of Job's trials were the ideas of Satan, who claimed that if God took away Job's wealth, family, and finally his health, Job would lose his faith, but he did not. FFRF would deny Job's triumph.

War and Remembrance, a miniseries from the book of the same name, showed Jewish scholar Jastrow in the Teresienstadt Ghetto (temporary location until transportation to Auschitz). See the video War and Remembrance Aaron Jastrow Story of Job

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